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  • September 7, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Lawyers find new way around billable hour

    CLIENTS DISTRUST them. Associates abhor them. Some lawyers, allegedly, abuse them and find their bar licenses stripped as a result. But billable hours remain the foremost currency by which la

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  • February 23, 2004 | Legal Times

    Leaders of the PAC: The Price of Politics

    When Elliott Portnoy joined Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in 2002 to build the firm's new federal lobbying practice, he believed that a major component of his success would be a flush po

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  • September 24, 2003 | Alm

    Media Access to Government Employees' E-Mails Restricted

    News organizations say two recent Florida Supreme Court actions restricting access to government employees' e-mails and phone call lists will hurt their ability to uncover misconduct by public

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  • April 15, 2013 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALSJones Day: Rebekah Plowman and Kristen McDonald join the firm's health care practice as partners in

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  • June 14, 2010 | National Law Journal

    MOVERS

    LATERALS Davis Wright Tremaine (Seattle): Michele Herman joins the firm's intellectual property practice in Seattle as partner and will focus her prac

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  • February 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

    Higher and Higher

    Law firms showed healthy increases in billing rates in 2004, with boosts reported for fees charged by associates and partners alike at firms that participated in an annual survey conducted by

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  • August 26, 2002 | National Law Journal

    General Counsel Conduct

    These have clearly not been easy times for the public company general counsel. A great number of the current corporate governance and accounting-related scandals have, unfortunately, involved

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  • May 1, 2007 | The American Lawyer

    Measuring a Lawyer's Value

    Value per lawyer ranks firms by how efficiently they generate profits. For the third year in a row, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz tops the list, with a value per lawyer of $1.585 mil

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  • August 6, 2008 | Daily Report Online

    Appeals Court Candidates Confront Anti-Abortion Group's Survey

    It's unlikely the Georgia Court of Appeals will ever issue a ruling on whether the state or federal constitution contains a right to abortion. But a Georgia anti-abortion group still wants to know

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  • April 3, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

    McCarter & English to Merge With Gadsby Hannah

    Follow Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line and you can pretty accurately plot the growth path of McCarter & English.Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Newark, New York, Hartford and now .

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